Chinese Official Coy About National Reunification Law to Capture Taiwan
On 12/16/20 at 11:33 AM EST
A Chinese official failed to rule out the possibility of Beijing drafting a national reunification law to seize the democratic island nation of Taiwan when quizzed by state media on Wednesday.
China would take all necessary measures to ensure the peaceful reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian told reporters at a regular briefing, before saying Beijing would smash to pieces any attempts by Taipei to claim independence.
Her answer came in response to a question from Xinhua News Agency, China s state-run news outlet, leading some cross-strait observers to speculate that the exchange was planned.
2020-12-16 15:06:08 GMT2020-12-16 23:06:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) Without its trade with the mainland, Taiwan would have seen a huge trade deficit, and its economy could not maintain positive growth this year, according to a mainland spokesperson on Wednesday. It is a fact that the mainland is Taiwan s biggest export market and the largest source of trade surplus, said Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
In the first 11 months of 2020, cross-Strait trade scored 235.69 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.4 percent of the mainland s total outbound trade, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs.
2020-12-16 15:36:07 GMT2020-12-16 23:36:07(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday blasted the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in Taiwan for fermenting anti-mainland sentiment and hatred after it banned a children s book from the mainland about the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said the DPP authorities and some politicians in Taiwan have been obsessive about politicizing and stigmatizing all mainland-related affairs, caring only about the political stance rather than truth and righteousness. What are they fearing? They fear that compatriots on the two sides of the Strait will get closer and more affectionate, that the people in Taiwan will come to know the reality in the mainland, and that their carefully-woven lies will be stripped away, Zhu said.
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